Mothership.sg to register with MDA, comply with all rules

SINGAPORE — The team behind the social news and lifestyle website Mothership.sg will comply with the Media Development Authority’s (MDA) request to register under Section 9 of the Broadcasting Act.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Mothership team said the website will comply with all laws, rules, regulations and codes of practice that have been put in place to regulate broadcasting in Singapore. It added that it will clarify its position regarding registration with the MDA as soon as possible.

The team also said it hoped the move would allow it to continue serving the Singapore community “without fear or favour” and bring it a step closer to obtaining full media accreditation in Singapore.

The statement said the “concern that foreign funding or any form of foreign influence impinging on our site’s activities, integrity or operations has never been an issue”.

The core team behind the website is Singaporean, it said, and it is their policy to post the identities of its editors and writers.

The team also thanked its supporters and said that in the month of March, one in five Singaporeans visited its website. CHANNEL NEWSASIA